During the Black Plague, it was thought that bad smells were the cause of the plague. "Plague Doctors" therefore wore masks with long beak-like noses stuffed with flowers or smoke to hide the smells.
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There is a family with a genetic condition that makes their skin blue, who have been isolated in rural Kentucky for generations.
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It has been calculated that a single breath from a mature blue whale can inflate up to 2,000 balloons.
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Men who kiss their wives in the morning live five years longer than those who don't.
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Only 12,000 years ago there was a species closely related to modern humans called Homo floresiensis that had been living on an Indonesian Island. They used fire and rather advanced tools, yet were only about 3 feet tall and weighed around 25kg.
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In 2014, a college in upstate New York started offering classes on the sociology of Miley Cyrus.
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There is a city called "Batman" in Turkey.
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